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JACKSON , a city and the county-seat ofSee also: Madison county, See also: Tennessee, U.S.A., situated on the Forked See also: Deer See also: river, about 85 m
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N.E. of See also: Memphis
.
Pop
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(189o), 10,039; (1900), 14,511, of whom 61o8 were negroes; (1910 census), 15,779
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It is served by the See also: Mobile & See also: Ohio, the See also: Nashville, See also: Chattanooga & St See also: Louis and the
See also: Illinois Central See also: railways
.
The See also: state supreme See also: court holds its sessions here for the western See also: district of Tennessee
.
The city is the seat of Union University (co-educational), chartered in 1875 as Southwestern Baptist University, and See also: con-ducted under that name at Jackson until 1907, when the See also: present name was adopted
.
In 1907–1908 the university had 17 instructors and 28o students
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At Jackson, also, are St Mary's See also: Academy (See also: Roman Catholic); the Memphis See also: Conference See also: Female Institute (Methodist Episcopal, See also: South, 1843), and Lane See also: College (for negroes), under the control of the Colored Methodist Episcopal See also: Church
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Jackson is an important
See also: cotton market, and is a See also: shipping point for the See also: farm products and fruits of the surrounding country
.
It has also numerous manufactures and railway shops
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The See also: total value of the factory product in 1905 was $2,317,715
.
The See also: municipality owns and operates the electric-See also: lighting plant and the See also: water-See also: works
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There is in the city an electro-chalybeate well with therapeutic properties
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Jackson was settled about 1820, incorporated as a See also: town in 1823, chartered as a city in 1854, and in 1907 received a new charter by which the sale of intoxicating liquors is forever prohibited
.
After General See also: Grant's advance into Tennessee in 1862 Jackson was fortified and became an important
See also: base of operations for the Federal army, Grant himself establishing his headquarters here in See also: October
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